Temporary Project Support - News Based Trading 50% (f/m)

Job Information

LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment specialist with USD 60 billion in
assets under management and more than 500 institutional clients in 37 countries. An international
team of over 450 professionals is responsible for managing a wide range of investment programs
focusing on private markets, liquid alternatives and multi-asset class solutions. Headquartered in
Pfaeffikon (SZ), Switzerland, the firm has offices in New York, Dublin, London, Paris, Vaduz,
Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

The news-based trading team at LGT Capital Partners Ltd. developed a natural language processing
algorithm (“NLP”) to assess sentiment in the financial news. This English language based NLP makes
use of dictionaries (object words, positive words, negative words, etc.) while taking into account
certain syntax structures to detect and quantify news that may influence the opinions of market
participants strongly.

Currently, we intend to adapt this process for quantifying the German language news.

Requirements

For the implementation of this interesting project we are looking for a smart, creative and
structured Master / PhD student or postdoc (preferably in language studies) with excellent command
of German and English.